That won't help anything because the Arduino IDE will still try and talk to the Arduino as ISP board at 19200 baud, so that will prevent it from working all by itself, regardless of what else might be wrong with your setup.

That won't help anything because the Arduino IDE will still try and talk to the Arduino as ISP board at 19200 baud, so that will prevent it from working all by itself, regardless of what else might be wrong with your setup.

According to the site, the UNO can't be used as an ISP yet because of the new optiboot bootloader that the UNO is using.

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NOTE: Currently, you cannot use an Arduino Uno as an ISP programmer because the optiboot bootloader does not support this sketch. A revision for this is in progress.

That quote taken from here: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP

I know it says that on the Arduno website, but at the same time I have read that some people managed to do it with the UNO. That's where all the confusion is coming. I have read two different kinds of posts:

- the ones that said it is not possible- the ones that managed somehow to make it work as an ISP.

The reason for my post is for those who have tried with the UNO and succeeded. Also to provide some trouble shooting tips on what I'm doing wrong and/or point me into the right direction on how to do this. Seems that the instruction on the posts of the ones that have succeeded are not working for me, or they failed to explain a step or two.

is it possible to burn a bootloader on my new Atmega328P-PU chip on a breadboard using the UNO as ISP???

If you're using a 16MHz crystal, you should be able to use "optifix":http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1295516707

WestFW, thanks for pointing me into the right direction. At the moment I don't have a 16MHz crystal, but should get my hands on them pretty soon (ordered a few last week) to try out your method. As soon as I have them I'll setup everything per http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard instructions and let you know how it goes.

is it possible to burn a bootloader on my new Atmega328P-PU chip on a breadboard using the UNO as ISP???

If you're using a 16MHz crystal, you should be able to use "optifix":http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1295516707

Alright WestFW, I got the 16MHz Xtal and followed exactly the instruction and as soon as I opened the serial monitor I hit reset and I got the following output:OptiFix Bootstrap programmer.2011 by Bill Westfield (WestfW)

Starting Program Mode [OK]

Reading signature:950FSearching for image... Found "optiboot_atmega328.hex" for atmega328 Start address at 7E00 Total bytes read: 508

Yep; that's all there is to it; it's essentially a zero-interaction sketch (with a rather narrow purpose.)if you make up a little programming cable to attach targets via the ISP connector, you can re-program a lot of boards really quickly, too. Plug in target, hit reset, watch the blinky lights, remove target, repeat.